2023Q3 Reports: SIGSUMM
SIGSUMM is the Association for Computational Linguistics special interest group for summarization. Founded in 2023, SIGSUMM is one of ACL’s SIGs. Its primary mission since its inception has been to organize a series of workshops, including NEWSUMM (New Frontiers in Summarization Workshops). SIGSUMM is generally focused on corpus-based, statistical or deep learning methods in automatic text summarization, and encourages initiatives in support of this broader mission from its members.
Membership
SIGSUMM has a total of 77 members from various backgrounds, including students, academics, and professionals in the field of Computational Linguistics and Summarization, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Officers
The officers of SIGSUMM include:
- Yue Dong, Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, Liaison Representative
- Wen Xiao, Researcher at Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service
- Yumo Xu, Scientist at AWS AI Labs Seattle
- Lu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan
- Fei Liu, Associate Professor at Emory University
- Jackie Chit Kit Cheung, Associate Professor at McGill University
- Giuseppe Carenini, Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Mirella Lapata, Professor at the University of Edinburgh
- Ido Dagan, Professor at Bar-Ilan University
Elections
The first election will be held in December 2023.
Activities
SIGSUMM organizes the NEWSUMM Workshops, including the 4th NewSumm workshop that will take place at EMNLP 2023.
External Links
- Official Website
- Mailing List